!maintained free software

!maintained free software

Posted Nov 9, 2006 16:40 UTC (Thu) by gvy (guest, #11981)
Parent article: Unmaintained free software

To me the sign of un/under/mismaintained software is the large number of non-trivial -- and often different -- patches within distribution packages.

Yep, pppd itself is rather there too. Really nobody using GPRS?

I'd also point a finger at hotplug/udev/hal -- some forgotten, some maintained to a degree where /dev/cdrom is considered obsolete and arcane (someone clearly forgot the 80/20 rule and common sense).

And at module-init-tools which were kinda proof of concept or example code and AFAIK are still included as a standalone crucial package in most distros (at least one of them still taking the plunge to integrate the new code with older but feature-complete modutils). This was brought up at xvendor@ a few years ago but to no avail.

Just today discussed what's up with ppp... doubt we'll still find enough patience to step forward.

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